AA-2026-CDE444
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Door County in 2002 had already made its reputation as the place Midwesterners went to feel they had discovered wilderness without actually leaving Wisconsin, and whoever stood at this riverbank had found a bend in the water that cooperated fully with that ambition. A low grass island sits in the middle of the channel, the kind of feature that appears on no map and means nothing to anyone except the person who happened to stop and look at it on a summer afternoon.
The mixed forest on the far bank — white pine and northern hardwoods doing what they have done in this part of the Great Lakes region since before anyone was keeping track — closes off the view in every direction except back toward the camera. A submerged log angles through the shallows in the foreground, the routine wreckage of a tree that fell into the water years ago and has been slowly becoming the riverbed ever since.
This is the kind of scene that a visitor records as proof that the trip was worth it, and that looks, thirty years later, exactly like every other quiet inlet in the upper Midwest. Door County was beautiful then, it is beautiful now, and the log is probably still there.
Visually related — by likeness
Wooded River Inlet with Grass Island, Door County, WI, 2002. 2002. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-CDE444. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/wooded-river-inlet-with-grass-island-door-county-wi-2002.
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